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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: © SolStock/iStock Trailer video: Alex Danson: © The Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...Write down the percentage of men aged between 25 and 34 who smoke over 20 cigarettes a day. (b) How many of the men aged 60 or over are non-smokers? (c) Which age group has the highest percentage of heavy smokers? Answer (a) Find ‘25–34’ in the column headings; then look down this column to the ‘Over 20’ row. This gives 29%. (b) The ‘60 or over’ column shows...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What is Talk Factory?
Education & Development

What is Talk Factory?

...writing”. - Katie Fitzsimmons, Assistant Head Teacher, Fowey Community College, Cornwall Where can I get Talk Factory? Talk Factory is available for free online. You do not need to download anything. Just go to the website, read the user guide, and use Talk Factory. You need to have Flash Player v10 or higher installed. The website will check the version of Flash you...
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Article 5 mins
Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Education & Development

Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world

...Write down the name of each object and the reason your child gives for their ‘prediction’. Mix up the objects again and ask your child to test each one in turn in the bowl of water. Are there any surprises? If there are, ask your child to explain them. Now you can say why you think each object behaved as it did. Talk about the reasons that you and your child gave. Are...
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Activity 10 mins
Outdoor spaces for tiny humans
Education & Development

Outdoor spaces for tiny humans

...writing of Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852) who believed that this period of childhood has particular significance; the senses, through which the child experiences the world, require that ‘the surroundings… should be pure and clear – pure air, clear light, clear space’ (1826, p. 15). On the Froebel Trust website, there is a section dedicated to children and nature...
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Video 45 mins
Roadkill: What is an animal’s greatest enemy?
Society, Politics & Law

Roadkill: What is an animal’s greatest enemy?

...writes Dick Skellington...[A frog scrambles up a grass verge as a car passes by.] If, like me, this fine summer, you have been driving around our country roads and lanes you may have noticed an apparent increase in the number of dead animals, especially badgers, rabbits, and pheasants. Since the Government’s aborted cull of badgers in the West country in a failed...
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Activity 5 mins
The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...writes, "Rome I venerate, in one is my cradle in the other my curule chair" - the curule chair being a symbol of Ausonius’ status. If cities conveyed Roman culture into Europe then we might expect this event to have left an enduring legacy in European culture. Given the coincidence between the sites of ancient and modern urbanism, might continuity of occupation not...
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Article 5 mins
Cynicism: Philosophy for dogs?
History & The Arts

Cynicism: Philosophy for dogs?

...writings by Antisthenes or Diogenes survive, so we have to rely on later writers to get a flavour of what they dished up to their victims – abusive, witty and nonchalantly insolent by turns. Their targets included philosophers, musicians, athletes, playboys, politicians and kings. It’s reported that Diogenes was once visited by Alexander the Great, who found Diogenes...
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Article 10 mins